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UNRWA halts Gaza aid, cites Hamas theft
Hanan Greenberg
Published: 06.02.09, 20:42
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1. Even the dumbest will get it now..
Janet Keno ,   Baltimore   (02.06.09)
2. UNRWA shouldn't play footsy with hamas.
Ypip ,   Canada   (02.06.09)
3. Also, Olmert and Clinton are a couple of idiots.
Ypip ,   Canada   (02.06.09)
4. ISRAEL NOW HAS TO PLAY THIS UP IN ALL THE MEDIA
MAKE IT A BIG THING ,   ..............DACON9   (02.06.09)
PROBLEM IS THAT ISRAEL NEVER FOLLOWS THROUGH CEASE FIRES AND MEDIA WARS ISRAEL THINKS SILENCE IS ENOUGH THIS IS A NEW WORLD YOU GOTTA RENT SPACE ON THE MOUNTAIN TOP CAUSE ALL THE ARABS TOOK MOST OF THE SPACE FOR THEMSELFS ,,, AND THE TIME TO SHOUT OUT HAMAS STOLE THE AID HAMAS HIDS INI SCHOOLS HAMAS SHOT AT US FROM THE SCHOOLS HAMAS IS KILLING HAMAS KEEPS STEALING THE WORLD AID MONEY DONT LET HAMAS TOUCH THE MONEY ISRAEL..SHOUT IT OUT !!! THANKS DACON9 jewswithviews@gmail.com
5. what goes around comes around.
David ,   USA, exile   (02.06.09)
UNRWA must be investigated for war crimes for not allowing aid to go in to those pooooooor hamas folks who are so precious in the eyes of the world.
6. Janet Keno
Leon ,   Grand Rapids USA   (02.06.09)
Don't bet on it.
7. AND IRAN AND LEBANON WANTS TO HELP THESE THIEVES!
stude ham   (02.06.09)
ha ha ha... tons of supplies by boat off to gaza... ha ha ha.. what a tragedy for the gazans to be so overtly robbed by their corrupt leaders.
8. Sounds like a violation of the Pali's
Joe ,   Ohio, USA   (02.06.09)
human rights to me! After all isn't this collective punishment? Where is the proportion in all this. It was just a few blankets and food parcels, why should all of Gaza suffer because of Hamas exercising it's fundamental right to resist and to be held to different standards from the rest of human society? The UN should be ashamed of itself!
9. Sorry to be a nuisance, Israel, but.....
UNRWA   (02.06.09)
......could you help us get our things back? You were right all along about these people.
10. SO MUCH FOR THE BIG LIE THAT ....
Cynic ,   USA   (02.06.09)
ISRAEL STARVES THE POOR PEOPLE OF GAZA. Of couse you won't hear any response from the likes of Jimmy Carter.
11. How about packing your people up and let the terrorists
Steven Wilson ,   Anchorage, Alaska   (02.06.09)
starve. Spoiled rotten little children never learn anything... if you give them everything, without them having to work for it. These peole are losers, leading a bunch of puppets, following an insane doctrine of cult worship. Let them fend for themselves. We owe them nothing but a word of advice. Learn to accept other prople from other religions for a change.
12. Confirming What The World Already Knows
Bill Foonman ,   Jacksonville USA   (02.06.09)
That Hamas are thieves as well as terrorists.
13. Media
KC ,   UK, Liverpool   (02.06.09)
Notice how this hasn't been reported in any major media station...
14. #5, yeah isn't ia war crime?
Danny   (02.06.09)
collective punishment or some other crap they claim against israel....
15. Hamas stealing
J.K. ,   Brooklyn USA   (02.06.09)
Will Turkey probe Hamas for stealing food from the Palestinian people ?
16. A typical olmert follow up
Arie ,   BaGolan   (02.06.09)
Now that hamass is stealing all the aid given to the citizens of aza, olmert is following it up by sending 175 million shekel to finance hamass' stealing capacity
17. Next move for Gunness
Arie ,   BaGolan   (02.06.09)
Begging Israel to provide bodyguards knowing full well hamass will now try to kill him
18. take the UNWRA to the Hague for human rights crimes
Joe Smith ,   Beverly hills, Usa   (02.06.09)
where is all the anti-unwra NGO's demanding this out of proportion response is a crime against humanity?which country will try them in absence first? They're to busy building a case against Israel for Hamas stealing the aid. Idiots deserve to sleep in bed you made!
19. just one of those things
Jacob Erickson ,   Tel Aviv Israel   (02.06.09)
this is just one of those things that no one will ever hear about. It's unfortunate, that the people who read all the biased news all around europe and america will never hear of things like this
20. Gaza the 80% welfare state that lives off aid for decades
Craig   (02.06.09)
No surprises here. Cries of hypocrisy and - you should cooperate with the local (Hamas ) authorites, forget one thing. How Hamas took that authority!! In cold and brutal blood killing. Their "authority" to rule went down the toilet. Gaza lives off western aid (as do a lot of Palestinians), some do need but the vast majority could manage but who would give up free education, medical care, food stamps, etc No one. Does anyone remember what Gaza was like under Egypt ? For those who cry hypocrisy, let them. The West's money is not a given and frankly there are a lot better places who need it far more. Ever been to Darfur? Congo? Millions displaced living in real refugee camps (no stone villas with electricity and running water, computers, plasma tv's like in Gaza) We are fed up with the whinning. Get Arab money instead, your brothers will help you out.
21. it has always been unrwa policy to make sure arab refugees
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from the palestinian mandate, when israel was declared, don't re-settle amongst their moslem arab brothers in other moslem arab countries in the middle east, but remain refugees, even though they have relatives who have made their homes in arab middle eastern countries centuries ago. unrwa also knows that there has been an arab immigration to palestine, that has doubled the arab population in the early 20th century, and not just a jewish immigration. but no-one seems to mention this, except history sites on the net. the palestinian mandate included at first both jordan and israel, and was promised as the national home for the jewish people. in 1922 it got divided, and transjordan was created, to be the land for the arabs in this area. the rest of it was again called palestine, and was again promised as a home land of the jewish people. all history sites confirm. what is the matter with organisations such as unrwa, that they are also obsessed with cramming so many people into such a small area, to suit the arabs cause to dominate whole of the middle east? palestinian arabs never had a state here, there is no collective memory of a way of life which is different to the jordanian way of life, or the syrian, or the egyptian, but is definitely not like the jewish. so why mix them with the jews? arabs lived in the ruins of israel far too long, in cities jews have built long ago, and they want to do so again, but there are jews in these cities now and arabs don't like it. no one seems to care that israel is one sixth of one percent of the land available for arabs in the middle east, any person with a bit of a brain can clearly see that mixing them with jews in such a smal area would mean loosing the jewish majority. is that what unrwa wants? cause it surely is what the arab world wants.
22. Theft in Gaza
mark ,   Canada   (02.06.09)
Well. Strange thing about all this--there is no honor among thieves. Did they steal it so they could sell it for money to buy arms? If so shame on Hamas. Surely there are people who need this in their own little stip of land, but I would bet that Hamas may also be selling the stolen goods to the Gazoons, for what little money they have. Again, so Hamas can buy arms. Shame on Hamas. The UN wants all this back? Stupid people. I would be very surprised if they gave it back. Hamas can claim that the stoppage of goods is a Western plot by the Great Satan to deprive the Gazoons of basic necessities! Yes even the stupidest should see it now, but will they.? Shame on Hamas, shame on Iran. Where good men do nothing, evil prevails. Unfortunately, a blotch upon muslims who say nothing about this.
23. Where are the Human Rights organizations?
Didi ,   USA   (02.06.09)
Only when Israel stops the aid they condemn. Isn't it a double standard?
24. the Gazans can rot for all I care
Don ,   California, USA   (02.06.09)
Their legitimately elected government brought this on, and the Gazans voted for their elected representatives. Karma, indeed. Maybe Hamas will get upset at Karen abu Zayd and John Ging and kick them out. Then these Jew-haters will be left speechless.
25. No coverage in US media
Sattam ,   India   (02.06.09)
As expected this news is not getting covered in mainstream media of US. After all how can they run bad publicity against their paymasters the HAMAS.
26. Only now they admit it!
meg ,   Israel   (02.06.09)
This has been going on ever since aid started to go through, and dont tell me they didnt even suspect...BS. Hamas again proves just how kind they are to their brethren...NOT. UNRWA, get they hell out and give the aid to those that really are starving. Now await to see if Hamas blame us for that, can just see their justification..."it was mossad agents taking the aid". Keep the damn boarder closed, give Shalit back to his family.
27. How long will UN allow Hamas to spit in its face and still
UN SUXX! ,   USA   (02.06.09)
swear that it's raining?
28. occupation hun?
Asaf Golan ,   Sugar Land   (02.06.09)
A camel is a camel is a camel
29. How dare the UNRWA fight back when victimized!
meir elazar   (02.06.09)
30. UNRWA HALTS AID
HENKA ,   RAMATGAN/ISRAEL   (02.06.09)
DO YOU THINK EVEN IN YOUR WILDEST DREAM THAT THE UNRWA WILL NOT MAKE AMENDS WITH THE GAZA PALESTINIANS IF NOT THE UNRWA PEOPLE WILL NOT HAVE JOBS THE UNRWA PEOPLE NEEDS THE PALESTINIAN
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